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5,000 youths receive vocational training

September 22, 2012

PANO – The Vocational School 22, under the Army Corps 4 on September 21st held a ceremony to review 2011-2012 school year and to start new academic year in presence of Major-General Nguyen Hoang, Commander of the Corps and Major-General Nguyen Trong Nghia, Political Commissar of the Corps.

In 2011-2012 academic year, the school trained 5,000 youths, most of them were demobilized soldiers, in information technology, automobile technology, electricity and electronics, and nursing.
Addressing the ceremony, Major-General Nguyen Hoang praised achievements recorded by the school over the past time and asked its staff to further renovate teaching methodology to increase teaching and studying quality and diversify training categories to meet demand for workers of industrial zones in Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces and Ho Chi Minh City.

At the ceremony, the school’s leaders presented certificates of merit and gifts to excellent students in the 2011-2012 school year while the Corps’ leaders handed over 50 scholarships to policy beneficiaries.

Established in 2009, the Vocational School 22 is to provide vocational training to soldiers who have completed their military services, policy beneficiaries and others. Many needy graduates could find stable job with the school’s recommendation.

Translated by Tran Hoai

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